2025 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Presented in Spain

(Received in 2026)

The IEEE SPS congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society’s prestigious awards during ICASSP 2026 in Spain.

Society Major Awards:

NORBERT WIENER SOCIETY AWARD
Michaël Unser, “for contributions and leadership to the theory and practice of signal processing and biomedical imaging.”

CLAUDE SHANNON-HARRY NYQUIST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 
Dong Yu, “for contributions to deep learning and its applications in speech recognition and processing.”

CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS EDUCATION AWARD
Barry D. Van Veen, “for contributions to signal processing education.”

LEO L. BERANEK MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD
KVS Hari, “for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.”

AMAR G. BOSE INDUSTRIAL LEADER AWARD
John G. Apostolopoulos, “for contributions and industry leadership in video/audio signal processing, communications, and networking.”

Society Career Awards:

INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION AWARD
Daniel P. W. Ellis, “for contributions to the analysis and classification of natural and musical sound scenes.”

PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE EARLY CAREER TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Santiago Segarra, “for contributions to graph signal processing and graph-based machine learning.”
Katherine L. Bouman, “for contributions to imaging techniques and analysis for astrophysics.”

Society Recognitions:

BEST PHD DISSERTATION AWARD
Hongkang Li, “Optimization and Generalization analysis of advanced neural networks and learning algorithms”
Nicholas Chimitt, “Computational Imaging through Atmospheric Turbulence”
Burak Varici, “Causal Learning Via Interventions: Estimation and Design”

Society Paper Awards:

BEST PAPER AWARDS
Sanyuan Chen, Chengyi Wang, Zhengyang Chen, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Zhuo Chen, Jinyu Li, Naoyuki Kanda, Xiong Xiao, Jian Wu, Long Zhou, Shuo Ren, Yanmin Qian, Yao Qian, and Furu Wei for “WavLM: Large-Scale Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Full Stack Speech Processing,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume 16, 2022.

Yiming Cui, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Bing Qin, and Ziqing Yang for “Pre-Training With Whole Word Masking for Chinese BERT,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 29, 2021.

Chongyi Li, Chunle Guo, Wenqi Ren, Runmin Cong, Junhui Hou, Sam Kwong, and Dacheng Tao for “An Underwater Image Enhancement Benchmark Dataset and Beyond,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 29, 2020.

Jiayi Ma, Han Xu, Junjun Jiang, Xiaoguang Mei, and Xiao-Ping Zhang for “DDcGAN: A Dual-Discriminator Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Multi-Resolution Image Fusion,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 29, 2020.

Davide Cozzolino and Luisa Verdoliva for “Noiseprint: A CNN-Based Camera Model Fingerprint,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 15, 2020.

Guowen Xu, Hongwei Li, Sen Liu, Kan Yang, and Xiaodong Lin for “VerifyNet: Secure and Verifiable Federated Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 15, 2020.

Stefano Buzzi, Emanuele Grossi, Marco Lops, and Luca Venturino for “Foundations of MIMO Radar Detection Aided by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 70, 2022.

DONALD G. FINK OVERVIEW PAPER AWARD
DeLiang Wang and Jitong Chen for “Supervised Speech Separation Based on Deep Learning: An Overview,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 26, 2018.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS BEST PAPER AWARD 
Jun Qi, Jun Du, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Xiaoli Ma, and Chin-Hui Lee for “On Mean Absolute Error for Deep Neural Network Based Vector-to-Vector Regression,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Volume 27, 2020.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD 
Andrzej Cichocki, Rafal Zdunek, and Shun-ichi Amari for “Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Factorization [Lecture Notes],” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, January 2008.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD 
Tian Li, Anit Kumar Sahu, Ameet Talwalkar, and Virginia Smith for “Federated Learning: Challenges, Methods, and Future Directions,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, May 2020.

SUSTAINED IMPACT PAPER AWARD 
Fredrik Gustafsson, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Niclas Bergman, Urban Forssell, Jonas Jansson, Rickard Karlsson, and Per-Johan Nordlund for “Particle Filters for Positioning, Navigation, and Tracking,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, February 2002.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARDS 
Shota Horiguchi, Yusuke Fujita, Shinji Watanabe, Yawen Xue, and Paola García for “Encoder-Decoder Based Attractors for End-to-End Neural Diarization,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 30, 2022.

Zijian Zhang and Linglong Dai for “A Joint Precoding Framework for Wideband Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Cell-Free Network,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 69, 2021.